Re: Q: X11, two boxes
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> If I try to run netscape from amidala, after having starting netscape
> on sarnold, it does not actually run a second copy locally -- it just
> asks for another window from the remotely running netscape. While this
> has its niceties (wmnetselect still works! :) one of them is
> communicator, the other navigator, and I have two seperate set of
> bookmarks (mainly since the ld.so bug the other day caused my amidala
> netscape to stop working.. :)
>
> Is this normal X11 behavior, to refer back to the netscape running
> from the remote machine, but DISPLAYing locally? Or is it netscape
> specific? Is there any way around it? (I am still trying to figure out
> *why* I wanted both netscapes running at once... :)
i believe this is a feature of the wrapper script Debian supplies
(/usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper). AFAIK, it checks for a running copy of
Netscape and forwards the url to that if found.
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